While all the top server vendors are likely preparing next-generation releases to be timed with Intel's upcoming Grantley-EP server processor family, HP is trying to build interest in its ProLiant Gen9 platform by looking at the need for more compute.

SimpliVity's channel partners who also partner with Cisco will have the option of offering a SimpliVity hyper-converged infrastructure appliance on a Cisco rack mount server rather than the current Dell server base.

HP Chairman and CEO Meg Whitman and her top lieutenants Thursday discussed significant partner deals, the converged systems pipeline and other issues as part of the company's quarterly partner webcast. Here are 10 signs from Whitman and her team that HP's partner commitment is powering a turnaround.

The reshuffling of HP's server executive team, which puts the former head marketing exec in charge of the huge play HP expects from customers migrating from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012, comes as HP prepares a new major refresh of its ProLiant server line.

HP CTO Martin Fink said HP is pushing hard on enterprise data center innovation with the OpenStack-based HP Helion cloud and with "The Machine," a future replacement of today's compute technology, featuring a unified memory to replace current memory and storage.